Parker Simmons

Ironically, whoever predicts a winner who isn't themself and is right is the actual winner.

"Oh my god... There's like a hundred undercuts in that weld!"

Close tie with Dr. Mario & Tetris for SNES. My wife and I could play that together endlessly!

blew my mind on NES Remix when all the miiverse posts were about how much people hated it. They're wrong. It's a treasure and I have OG Animal Crossing to thank!

NES! Has the better soundtrack.

Same. I think the first eked out purely because of the stakes and scale. The bros just feel their most broey here. It's like a playable Saturday Morning Cartoon!

Mario gets its own list, tbh. That's the king of kings.

I'm not final destination only, tourney-type melee player. I just put 1000s of hours into that game (and the subsequent games) with my friends and there's no multiplayer experience that compares. Fun, funny, fast-paced and dramatic. No two games are ever alike!

But like... Superstar Saga is supreme in my heart. It gets everything so right as a story and it's the treatment of the bros as characters that works for me.

Bowser's Inside Story could easily be swapped for it though, purely because playable Bowser automatically takes your game up 2 or 3 points.

For 2D Mario, it's SMB3 for me. For 3D Mario it's extremely difficult to choose because they're all so different. I have a soft-spot for Sunshine, but the answer is Bowser's Fury, no contest.

Also you could hot swap ALttP with Link's Awakening, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess or even BotW on any given day. Zelda is my one true love above all else. That said, ALttP just gets me through it. But Wind Waker is far and away the best narrative and it's not remotely close.

No room for the Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, Pikmin, Ys, Etrian Odyssey, SMT, SaGa (Frontier), Mega Man, Resident Evil, Pokemon, Kirby, Metroid and Starfox of it all?! Criminal.

Anyone who follows me even a little knows the real breadth of my love for games!

Did the #my9games trend and it makes me sick to my stomach. How can you choose just ONE of a series let alone 9 of anything? I'm gonna rattle more below. You can do this at my9games.com

Another damn fine list!

It's like someone pulls a cord on my back and tears shoot out of my eyes. It's the highest high of the series. FFVI is a close second for me, but this is just unrestrained in its message. A complete celebration of living and love.

This moment right here. Without fail. EVERY time. Fuck the crown, fuck magic, fuck the plot, there's only one thing that matters. They said the theme of FFIX was "living," and just... goddamn! It hits. It's not manipulative or contrived, it's just straight up truth.

Can't watch the end to FFIX without fucking losing it. It's like a magic trick. It's hard to say that the story is really leading to this one point, and it doesn't feel like a typical narrative either. There's just this radical sincerity to it.

And I would've chosen V because of the impact on my life, probably! That cemented my love for the series, and I even got to voice Pankraz. But even besides XI, IV and VIII are sitting there with very strong arguments too.

The thing that Link's Awakening, Chrono Trigger and FFIX share that deep and kind bittersweet emotional core.

Those are living, breathing worlds and they're so fucking hard to say goodbye to.

We have some CRAZY overlap, but man, so many of these from series I could swap without batting an eye too.

How does one pick ONE Dragon Quest? That's like eating ONE thin mint. I refuse!

What is this? Some kind of Insane Mouse Mansion?!

They're all three the same character... Kinda!

My wife was laughing at it like it was fucking Blazing Saddles or something. Just knee slapper after knee slapper.

Meanwhile on-screen? Cosmic horror beyond comprehension.

10/10

What is this? Some kind of Insane Mouse Mansion?!

Fixed the second chorus for those it bothered (me)

Was noodling around and a little Young Frankenstein tango came out!

Jentry may have won an emmy for best show opening, but they NEVER would've got there without my first pass!

"I suppose, I feel a skensk... Of pride... So there is that."

I used to say that last name every day working on season 3 of Metal. A perfect earworm!

It always amazes me how much just a LITTLE extra juice on the lipsync will get you. It's like 10% more effort but it translates to a 100% better shot every time.